diff --git a/src/components/SystemsIntelligenceCanvas.jsx b/src/components/SystemsIntelligenceCanvas.jsx
index 04661ac..4f6722b 100644
--- a/src/components/SystemsIntelligenceCanvas.jsx
+++ b/src/components/SystemsIntelligenceCanvas.jsx
@@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
-import React, { useState, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useCallback } from "react";
+import React, { useState, useMemo, useCallback } from "react";
 import { motion, AnimatePresence } from "framer-motion";
-import { 
-  Activity, Cpu, Network, ShieldCheck, Zap, Radio, 
-  Layers, Compass, Database, Terminal, RefreshCw, X, Info, CheckCircle2,
-  Server, GitCommit, ShieldAlert, ArrowUpRight, CpuIcon, BookOpen,
-  HelpCircle, Link2, Sparkles, Code2, ArrowRight, History, Lightbulb,
-  Workflow, Layers3, ChevronRight, Share2, CornerDownRight
+import {
+  Layers, Compass, X, History, ChevronRight
 } from "lucide-react";
 import clsx from "clsx";
 import { twMerge } from "tailwind-merge";
 import { useSpatial } from "../SpatialContext";
 import { useSystemCommand } from "../context/SystemCommandContext";
-import EngineeringReviewPanel from "./EngineeringReviewPanel";
-import { CASE_STUDIES } from "../data/missions";
 import { MICRO_EDUCATION_DB, MISSION_TOPOLOGIES, AMBIENT_NODES, AMBIENT_LINKS } from "../data/canvas-atlas";
 import { mapReveal } from "../lib/motion";
 
@@ -29,18 +23,7 @@ export default function SystemsIntelligenceCanvas() {
   const [selectedNode, setSelectedNode] = useState(null);
   const [hoveredLink, setHoveredLink] = useState(null);
   const [selectedTech, setSelectedTech] = useState(null);
-  const [viewMode, setViewMode] = useState("presentation");
 
-  const activeMissionData = useMemo(() => {
-    if (selectedMissionId) {
-      return CASE_STUDIES.find((m) => m.missionId === selectedMissionId) || CASE_STUDIES[0];
-    }
-    return CASE_STUDIES[0];
-  }, [selectedMissionId]);
-
-  const [eventLogIndex, setEventLogIndex] = useState(0);
-
-  // Phase 2: Engineering Memory (Session Exploration History Trail)
   const [explorationHistory, setExplorationHistory] = useState(() => {
     return [
       { type: "mission", id: "ops-dronly", label: "ops.dronly.in" }
@@ -49,34 +32,13 @@ export default function SystemsIntelligenceCanvas() {
 
   const addToHistory = useCallback((item) => {
     setExplorationHistory((prev) => {
-      // Avoid duplicate consecutive entries
       if (prev.length > 0 && prev[prev.length - 1].id === item.id) return prev;
       const filtered = prev.filter((x) => x.id !== item.id);
       return [...filtered.slice(-5), item];
     });
   }, []);
 
-  // Pillar 1: Live Pulse Traffic Density & Simulation Controls
-  const [trafficDensity, setTrafficDensity] = useState('NORMAL'); // 'NORMAL' | 'HIGH_LOAD' | 'FAILOVER'
-  const [manualBreakerTripped, setManualBreakerTripped] = useState(false);
-
-  const isBreakerActive = manualBreakerTripped || trafficDensity === 'FAILOVER';
-
-  // Computed Dynamic Operations Telemetry Metrics
-  const pingRate = trafficDensity === 'FAILOVER' ? '142.0k pings/s' : trafficDensity === 'HIGH_LOAD' ? '68.5k pings/s' : '12.4k pings/s';
-  const workerPool = trafficDensity === 'FAILOVER' ? '256 Workers' : trafficDensity === 'HIGH_LOAD' ? '128 Workers' : '64 Workers';
-  const healthSLA = isBreakerActive ? '94.10% SHIELDED' : trafficDensity === 'HIGH_LOAD' ? '98.42% ARMED' : '99.98% NOMINAL';
-
-  // Packet animation speed
-  const packetAnimDuration = trafficDensity === 'FAILOVER' ? '0.5s' : trafficDensity === 'HIGH_LOAD' ? '1.2s' : '3.8s';
-
-  // Cycle telemetry event log ticker
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const interval = setInterval(() => {
-      setEventLogIndex((prev) => prev + 1);
-    }, 4000);
-    return () => clearInterval(interval);
-  }, []);
+  const packetAnimDuration = "3.8s";
 
   const activeTopology = useMemo(() => {
     if (selectedMissionId && MISSION_TOPOLOGIES[selectedMissionId]) {
@@ -87,15 +49,8 @@ export default function SystemsIntelligenceCanvas() {
 
   const currentNodes = activeTopology ? activeTopology.nodes : AMBIENT_NODES;
   const currentLinks = activeTopology ? activeTopology.links : AMBIENT_LINKS;
-  const currentEvents = activeTopology ? activeTopology.events : [
-    "Systems Mesh active: Monitoring distributed nodes",
-    "Telemetry link integrity: 99.94% Nominal",
-    "Zero security vulnerabilities detected in active build",
-    "Select a Flagship Mission above to inspect full topology"
-  ];
 
-  const themeColor = isBreakerActive ? "#f43f5e" : trafficDensity === 'HIGH_LOAD' ? "#fbbf24" : activeTopology ? activeTopology.hexColor : "#00f0ff";
-  const themeText = isBreakerActive ? "text-rose-400" : trafficDensity === 'HIGH_LOAD' ? "text-amber-400" : activeTopology ? activeTopology.textClass : "text-cyan-electric";
+  const themeColor = activeTopology ? activeTopology.hexColor : "#00f0ff";
 
   // Helper to resolve node coordinates
   const getNodePos = useCallback((id) => {
@@ -203,29 +158,6 @@ export default function SystemsIntelligenceCanvas() {
               );
             })}
           </div>
-
-          <div className="flex items-center gap-2 overflow-x-auto custom-scrollbar shrink-0">
-            <div className="flex items-center rounded-md border border-obsidian-border bg-slate-950 p-0.5 font-sans text-xs shrink-0">
-              <button type="button"
-                onClick={() => { playClickSound(); setViewMode("presentation"); }}
-                className={cn(
-                  "px-2.5 py-1 rounded transition-all cursor-pointer font-medium flex items-center gap-1",
-                  viewMode === "presentation" ? "bg-cyan-electric/20 text-cyan-electric border border-cyan-electric/40" : "text-slate-400 hover:text-white"
-                )}
-              >
-                Map
-              </button>
-              <button type="button"
-                onClick={() => { playClickSound(); setViewMode("review"); }}
-                className={cn(
-                  "px-2.5 py-1 rounded transition-all cursor-pointer font-medium flex items-center gap-1",
-                  viewMode === "review" ? "bg-amber-400/20 text-amber-300 border border-amber-400/50" : "text-slate-400 hover:text-white"
-                )}
-              >
-                <ShieldCheck size={11} /> Review
-              </button>
-            </div>
-          </div>
         </div>
 
         {/* Phase 2: Engineering Memory (Session History Trail) */}
@@ -259,17 +191,8 @@ export default function SystemsIntelligenceCanvas() {
 
       </div>
 
-      {/* Layer 2: Main Vector Node Canvas Stage OR Engineering Review Mode Panel */}
-      {viewMode === "review" ? (
-        <div className="relative w-full flex-1 my-2 rounded-lg bg-slate-950/90 border border-amber-400/30 p-4 overflow-y-auto max-h-[640px] custom-scrollbar z-10">
-          <EngineeringReviewPanel 
-            mission={activeMissionData} 
-            activeMode={viewMode}
-            onToggleMode={(mode) => setViewMode(mode)}
-          />
-        </div>
-      ) : (
-        <div className="relative w-full flex-1 min-h-[300px] my-2 rounded-lg bg-slate-950/60 border border-obsidian-border/50 overflow-hidden">
+      {/* Layer 2: Main Vector Node Canvas Stage */}
+      <div className="relative w-full flex-1 min-h-[300px] my-2 rounded-lg bg-slate-950/60 border border-obsidian-border/50 overflow-hidden">
         
         {/* SVG Vector Links Layer */}
         <svg className="absolute inset-0 w-full h-full pointer-events-none z-10">
@@ -573,46 +496,9 @@ export default function SystemsIntelligenceCanvas() {
             <div className="kicker text-slate-400 flex items-center justify-center gap-1.5">
               <Compass size={13} /> Open a system
             </div>
-            <p className="font-sans text-xs text-slate-400 leading-tight">
-              Click a node for situation, choice, and cost.
-            </p>
           </div>
         )}
       </div>
-      )}
-
-      {/* Layer 3: Contextual Operational Telemetry Status Bar */}
-      <div className="relative z-10 grid grid-cols-2 sm:grid-cols-4 gap-2 pt-2.5  font-mono text-xs">
-        
-        <div className="p-2 sm:p-2.5 rounded-lg bg-obsidian-surface/70 border border-obsidian-border/70">
-          <span className="text-slate-500 block text-[8px] uppercase tracking-wider">Active Mission</span>
-          <span className={cn("font-bold truncate block mt-0.5", themeText)}>
-            {activeTopology ? activeTopology.title : "Global Systems Mesh"}
-          </span>
-        </div>
-
-        <div className="p-2 sm:p-2.5 rounded-lg bg-obsidian-surface/70 border border-obsidian-border/70">
-          <span className="text-slate-500 block text-[8px] uppercase tracking-wider">gRPC Worker Pool</span>
-          <span className="text-slate-300 font-semibold truncate block mt-0.5">
-            {workerPool}
-          </span>
-        </div>
-
-        <div className="p-2 sm:p-2.5 rounded-lg bg-obsidian-surface/70 border border-obsidian-border/70">
-          <span className="text-slate-500 block text-[8px] uppercase tracking-wider">Live Ingest Rate</span>
-          <span className="text-cyan-electric font-bold truncate block mt-0.5">
-            {pingRate}
-          </span>
-        </div>
-
-        <div className="p-2 sm:p-2.5 rounded-lg bg-obsidian-surface/70 border border-obsidian-border/70">
-          <span className="text-slate-500 block text-[8px] uppercase tracking-wider">Circuit Breaker SLA</span>
-          <span className={cn("font-bold truncate block mt-0.5 flex items-center gap-1", isBreakerActive ? "text-rose-400" : trafficDensity === 'HIGH_LOAD' ? "text-amber-400" : "text-emerald-glow")}>
-            <CheckCircle2 size={11} /> {healthSLA}
-          </span>
-        </div>
-
-      </div>
 
     </div>
   );
diff --git a/src/components/TrustCenter.jsx b/src/components/TrustCenter.jsx
index 8d41200..6f4e5e7 100644
--- a/src/components/TrustCenter.jsx
+++ b/src/components/TrustCenter.jsx
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ export default function TrustCenter() {
         </div>
       </div>
 
-      <div className="flex flex-1 flex-col overflow-hidden md:flex-row">
+      <div className="flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col overflow-hidden md:flex-row">
         <div className="w-full shrink-0 border-b border-obsidian-border/60 bg-obsidian/45 overflow-x-auto overflow-y-hidden p-3 flex flex-row gap-2 md:w-72 md:flex-col md:overflow-y-auto md:overflow-x-hidden md:border-b-0 md:border-r md:p-4">
           {TRUST_SECTIONS.map((section) => {
             const isActive = activeSection === section.id;
diff --git a/src/data/canvas-atlas.js b/src/data/canvas-atlas.js
index 3ddff74..2043548 100644
--- a/src/data/canvas-atlas.js
+++ b/src/data/canvas-atlas.js
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ export const MICRO_EDUCATION_DB = {
   }
 };
 
-// Flagship Mission Topologies Configuration with deep 4-Pillar Engineering Insights, Decision Ledgers, Evolution & Recommendations
+// Flagship topologies. Nodes, edges, short notes.
 export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
   "ops-dronly": {
     id: "ops-dronly",
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Ingest", 
         x: 50, y: 35, 
         isCore: true, 
-        detail: "Ingests 50k telemetry pings/sec with <2ms jitter across distributed UAV clusters.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Positions arrive faster than a table wants.",
           decision: "Stream them. Cache the hot path.",
@@ -113,7 +112,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Edge", 
         x: 22, y: 18, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Low-latency bi-directional UDP/gRPC gateway operating on edge gateways.",
         insight: {
           problem: "The cell drops mid-flight.",
           decision: "UDP at the edge. gRPC on the way back.",
@@ -126,7 +124,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Hexes", 
         x: 78, y: 18, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Hierarchical hexagonal spatial indexing for real-time airspace collision avoidance.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Pairwise distance does not scale.",
           decision: "Hex buckets. Look up the neighbors.",
@@ -139,7 +136,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Viewport", 
         x: 18, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Sub-100ms camera feed passthrough with H.264 hardware encoding.",
         insight: {
           problem: "HLS is too late if someone is still flying.",
           decision: "WebRTC for the loop.",
@@ -152,7 +148,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Shed", 
         x: 82, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Automatic failover circuit breaker tripping at 95% channel saturation.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A backlog can take the core with it.",
           decision: "Shed the extra pings. Keep the loop.",
@@ -165,7 +160,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Replay", 
         x: 50, y: 82, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Partitioned hypertable time-series store for trajectory replay and diagnostics.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Raw GPS fills a disk.",
           decision: "Compress the chunks. Replay the path.",
@@ -213,7 +207,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Events", 
         x: 50, y: 35, 
         isCore: true, 
-        detail: "Immutable append-only event store for clinical audit trails and state projections.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A row overwrite loses who changed what.",
           decision: "Write events. Read a projection.",
@@ -226,7 +219,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Lock", 
         x: 20, y: 20, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Zero-knowledge encryption for PHI data streams with strict RBAC enforcement.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A shared clinic cannot leak a chart.",
           decision: "Encrypt the field before it hits the wire.",
@@ -239,7 +231,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Chart", 
         x: 80, y: 20, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "3D real-time odontogram state reducer with optimistic UI synchronization.",
         insight: {
           problem: "The chart cannot wait on the server.",
           decision: "Reduce locally. Sync when you can.",
@@ -252,7 +243,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "X-ray", 
         x: 18, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Automated radiograph image ingestion with GPU-accelerated contrast normalization.",
         insight: {
           problem: "An X-ray is too big for the waiting room.",
           decision: "Chunk it. Normalize at the edge.",
@@ -265,7 +255,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Tenants", 
         x: 82, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Tenant isolation gateway providing dynamic database schema partitioning.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Two clinics cannot share a row.",
           decision: "A key per practice. A schema per key.",
@@ -278,7 +267,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Offline", 
         x: 50, y: 82, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Offline-first clinic local node relay with automatic peer reconciliations.",
         insight: {
           problem: "The line goes down mid-appointment.",
           decision: "A local copy. Reconcile later.",
@@ -325,7 +313,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Bus", 
         x: 50, y: 35, 
         isCore: true, 
-        detail: "Interoperable clinical message broker streaming FHIR v4 compliant health records.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Hospitals do not speak the same shape.",
           decision: "One event shape for everyone.",
@@ -338,7 +325,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Wearable", 
         x: 22, y: 18, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "High-frequency wearable telemetry for heart-rate variability and kinematic tracking.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A wristband drops samples.",
           decision: "Smooth on the phone. Then stream.",
@@ -351,7 +337,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Corridor", 
         x: 78, y: 18, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Rules-based automated engine evaluating recovery trajectory against clinical benchmarks.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A coach cannot watch every joint.",
           decision: "A rule for the corridor. A ping if they leave it.",
@@ -364,7 +349,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Pose", 
         x: 18, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Computer vision kinematic range-of-motion angle quantification worker.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Self-report lies.",
           decision: "Pose on the camera. Count the angle.",
@@ -377,7 +361,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Translate", 
         x: 82, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Bidirectional converter translating HL7 v2 messages to modern FHIR streams.",
         insight: {
           problem: "The hospital still speaks HL7 v2.",
           decision: "Translate into the event bus.",
@@ -390,7 +373,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Practice", 
         x: 50, y: 82, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "End-to-end encrypted mobile client receiving real-time clinical exercise plans.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Paper handouts do not get done.",
           decision: "Show the motion. Count the set.",
@@ -437,7 +419,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Skills", 
         x: 50, y: 35, 
         isCore: true, 
-        detail: "High-dimensional vector embedding space connecting engineering domain competencies.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Keywords miss the neighbor skill.",
           decision: "Put skills near each other in a space.",
@@ -450,7 +431,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Notes", 
         x: 22, y: 20, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Structured mapping linking engineering decisions directly to live proof assets.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A claim without a note is a claim.",
           decision: "Link the choice to the case.",
@@ -463,7 +443,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Cases", 
         x: 78, y: 20, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Dynamic dependency graph mapping case studies to architectural artifacts.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A case study hides the joints.",
           decision: "Draw the graph. Open a node.",
@@ -476,7 +455,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Scope", 
         x: 18, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Quantifies technical scope, architectural ownership, and systemic business impact.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Seniority is usually a vibe.",
           decision: "Show the scope of the choice.",
@@ -489,7 +467,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Model", 
         x: 82, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Calculates throughput improvements, latency drops, and availability metrics.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Abstract work hides the cost.",
           decision: "Show latency and dollars as a model.",
@@ -502,7 +479,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Cover", 
         x: 50, y: 82, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Generates context-aware technical briefs for engineering leadership.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A recruiter and a CTO want different depths.",
           decision: "A cover first. The rest on open.",
@@ -549,7 +525,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Local model", 
         x: 50, y: 35, 
         isCore: true, 
-        detail: "Local private LLM orchestrator running on dedicated hardware for deep contextual synthesis.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A public model sees the journal.",
           decision: "Run it on this machine.",
@@ -562,7 +537,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Vault", 
         x: 22, y: 18, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Encrypted local LanceDB vector store holding personal engineering journal entries.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Years of notes are not searchable.",
           decision: "Embed them locally.",
@@ -575,7 +549,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Journal", 
         x: 78, y: 18, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Synthesizes daily commit logs, ADR updates, and architectural notes into a knowledge graph.",
         insight: {
           problem: "The day's choice evaporates.",
           decision: "Parse commits and notes into a graph.",
@@ -588,7 +561,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Focus", 
         x: 18, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Dynamic priority scheduler structuring deep work blocks based on cognitive load.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Context switch kills the afternoon.",
           decision: "Group the hard work.",
@@ -601,7 +573,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Key", 
         x: 82, y: 68, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Hardware security key authorization protecting context access.",
         insight: {
           problem: "A stolen laptop is the vault.",
           decision: "A hardware key. No key, no notes.",
@@ -614,7 +585,6 @@ export const MISSION_TOPOLOGIES = {
         label: "Pair", 
         x: 50, y: 82, 
         isCore: false, 
-        detail: "Encrypted peer-to-peer device state replication across local workstations.",
         insight: {
           problem: "Two machines. No cloud.",
           decision: "Encrypt the delta over the LAN.",
@@ -645,7 +615,6 @@ export const AMBIENT_NODES = [
     id: "amb-1", 
     label: "Distributed Telemetry Ingest", 
     x: 20, y: 25, 
-    detail: "High-throughput telemetry ingestion network.",
     insight: {
       problem: "Ingesting multi-source telemetry data at scale.",
       decision: "Distributed edge ingestion nodes.",
@@ -657,7 +626,6 @@ export const AMBIENT_NODES = [
     id: "amb-2", 
     label: "Edge C2 Command Router", 
     x: 80, y: 25, 
-    detail: "Edge Command & Control routing gateway.",
     insight: {
       problem: "Low-latency command dispatching.",
       decision: "Direct edge RPC routing.",
@@ -670,7 +638,6 @@ export const AMBIENT_NODES = [
     label: "Enterprise Event Core", 
     x: 50, y: 45, 
     isCore: true,
-    detail: "Central event orchestration & message router.",
     insight: {
       problem: "Decoupling microservices across enterprise workloads.",
       decision: "Centralized event streaming bus.",
@@ -682,7 +649,6 @@ export const AMBIENT_NODES = [
     id: "amb-4", 
     label: "Capability Knowledge Graph", 
     x: 25, y: 75, 
-    detail: "Vector embedding knowledge graph.",
     insight: {
       problem: "Connecting complex domain skills & evidence.",
       decision: "Graph database with vector embeddings.",
@@ -694,7 +660,6 @@ export const AMBIENT_NODES = [
     id: "amb-5", 
     label: "Clinical Event Store", 
     x: 75, y: 75, 
-    detail: "Immutable append-only event store.",
     insight: {
       problem: "Maintaining compliance audit trails.",
       decision: "Append-only event sourcing.",